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003			DLC
005			20250828065525.0
008			191007s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2019045146
020			_a9780735216723 _q(hardcover)
020			_q(ebook) _z9780735216747
035			_a(OCoLC)1122690620
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dTnLvILS _erda
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-ny
050	0	0	_aPS3613.C28 _bD43 2020
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100	1		_aMcBride, James _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDeacon King Kong _cJames McBride.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2020.
300			_a370 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDrug dealers _vFiction _xCrimes against
650		0	_aNeighborhoods _vFiction
650		0	_aMurder _vFiction
650		0	_aDrug dealers _vFiction
650		0	_aDeacons _vFiction
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _vFiction _xHistory _y20th century
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _vFiction _xSocial life and customs
776	0	8	_aMcBride, James, 1957- _dNew York : Riverhead Books, 2020. _iOnline version: _tDeacon King kong _w(DLC) 2019045147 _z9780735216747
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